Forschung

The team of the Department of Building Construction, Installation, and Design possesses a wide range of expertise, working with the following focal points and research areas:

// Industrial construction and lightweight construction methods in building construction
// Material-cross design of lightweight structures in building construction
// Detailed principles of light building materials in the construction industry
// Development of resource-efficient construction methods
// Analysis of the potentials of future material and joining technologies
// Structural engineering technical solutions in an international context
// Standards, rules of practice, and building certificates for sustainability
// Technology development and cultural context
// Kinematic design systems
// Thermal building simulation
// Multi-dimensional thermal conduction and heat storage
// Building climatology (Bauklimatologie)
// Space architecture and architecture in extreme environments
// Knowledge transfer and (science) fiction in structural engineering and building construction
// Development areas
// Digital architecture
// Film and architecture
// Evaluation of milestones of European and non-European (post-war) Modernism
// Building sustainability, elementary timber construction systems
// Minimized living forms
// Socio-spatial orientation and socio-cultural participation in architecture
// Socio-spatial structure versus spatial characteristics

Building Constructions in Contact with the Ground

  • Climate data

  • Multidimensional conduction of heat

  • Summer behavior of buildings

  • Three-dimensional thermal building simulation